I disagree--it would be outright silly for Intel to release such a top-tier processor and make it unoverclockable

Not really. You don't know the enterprise market.

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Originally Posted by borandi

'16-core Opteron' is a bit of a misnomer. It's not a 16-core when you cut out half of the floating point operation units. It's technically 8 module, 16 thread, because a 'core' in this circumstance is undefined. If I wanted 16 cores, I would want a full set of floating point units to calculate with, not something butchered to high heaven.

True... like all real server work, it depends on the needs of the application(s).

Other high core count CPUs to note:
AMD Magny Core are 12C.
Intel Westmere-EX are 10C/20T.
IBM POWER7 are 8C/32T.